Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Dr. Sylvia Tiwon of UC-Berkeley will be the Keynote Speaker at the 22nd COTSEAL-SEASSI Conference of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, July 18-19 at UW-Madison, speaking on our theme of "New Challenges in Southeast Asian Language Teaching":

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Here's the Call for Papers for the 2014 COTSEAL-SEASSI Conference. A PDF version can be found here.Call for Papers and Presentations
22nd Annual Conference on Southeast Asian
Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics
July 18th-19th, 2014
University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Council of Teachers of Southeast Asian Languages (COTSEAL) and the Southeast Asian
Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison sponsor the 22nd Annual
Conference on Southeast Asian Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics on Friday, July 18th,
and Saturday, July 19th, 2014 in 206 Ingraham Hall, University of Wisconsin-Madison. The theme for
the conference is "New Challenges in Southeast Asian Language Teaching." Papers and
presentations could address (but are not limited to) the following topics: distance learning, funding
issues, classroom management, oral and written discourse issues in language teaching. Each
presentation should take no more than thirty minutes (20 minutes for the presentation and 10
minutes for questions and discussion).
Abstract Deadline: May 15th, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: June 1st, 2014
Abstract Submission
Please submit a one-page abstract (8.5"x11", or A4) which should include the title, a brief description
of not more than 100 words, and your mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address. Send an
email attachment (Microsoft Word) of your abstract/proposal to:
subject line: COTSEAL Conference Committee
bact@berkeley.eduFor more information about the conference, please contact the conference co-chairs:
Bac Hoai Tran bact@berkeley.eduLopao Vang orchidhomes@tds.netTravel Grants
COTSEAL is offering some travel grants to help lecturers whose papers are accepted to attend the
conference. A detailed description of the process for applying for a travel grant can be found on our
website; http://cotseal.net/travel_grants.html.
The conference announcement, hotel information, and updates will soon be made available on the
COTSEAL website: http://cotseal.net/conference.html.

There's not much up there so far: only GUAVA (Vietnamese) for instructor associations, and Vietnamese, Filipino and Khmer (speaking draft only) for language learning frameworks/guidelines. So if you know of language learning proficiency guidelines online for any other Southeast Asian languages, or any other instructor associations with their own websites, please send the links to me!

Sunday, April 6, 2014

I'm happy to announce that the COTSEAL summer conference on language teaching will return this year, and be held as usual in conjunction with SEASSI at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The dates for the conference are Friday and Saturday, July 18-19, 2014. A conference committee is being formed even as we speak, and a call for papers will be published by the end of April. This year, COTSEAL will be offering matching travel grants to be combined with funding from presenters' home institutions--stay tuned to this blog for more soon!